The Big Here Quiz
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I also live in a city (London) whose y and z coordinates are both approximately 0, which keeps things simple, although it's quite possible that the answer to 'where does your waste go' is the Thames.
I was able to answer all but ~5 questions because I'm a pretty simple area and I think most people would be able to answer most.
Does that mean I'm attune to nature or environmentally aware? Not at all. I would say much less so than the average person in the world since I almost never have to consider nature at all here.
Seems focusing on colonizers. Most people don't live in places with a clear separation between the previous tribe and the current tribe.
> Name three wild species that were not found here 500 years ago. Name one exotic species that has appeared in the last 5 years.
Is it really that common for a new exotic species to get introduced every 5 years? Animals and plants are mostly adapted to the biomes they originated in and usually don't survive well if you take them elsewhere, not much survives in temperate forests/taigas that doesn't already live there.
Or more simply: We are all colonizers. No matter who you are or where you live, a different culture existed there before you. What can you learn about them?
My "tribe" is a mixture of anglo-saxons, normans and celts. The celts, in particular, have been here since before recorded history. Who knows who preceded them; some celtic legends would suggest they were preceded by giants and "little people". Giants are said to grind human bones to make bread.
I didn't know it stopped north of Luton, but I'm not surprised - I think three big rivers emerge at The Wash.
I think I guessed 30M for the population of the Thames watershed, based on 8M for London, maybe a dozen towns of more than 500,000 in the home counties, and loads of suburban sprawl and smaller towns. 30M is about 1/3 of the population of Britain, which seems about right. But even with a map of the watershed, it would be hard to estimate without a list of the populations of towns.
Perhaps I've overestimated the number of towns of over 500,000; I live in the largest conurbation in this county, and it's population is just 140,000.
Anyway, my point was that the watershed is big enough (and complex enough) that unless you happen to know the answer, estimating its population is pretty challenging.
But I'd like to see this go one step further: How about we measure this continuously to see whether awareness drops?
That might show that (a) humans are getting more or less aware (I guess we grow more aware since information diffusion has grown immensely) and (b) the world gets more complex and thus harder to be aware of (pretty sure on this one, see reflexive modernity)
A few are harder “After the rain runs off your roof, where does it go?” (What’s rain? It’s -30f here…). Also the invasive species questions (Do any of them survive?)
The latitude question had me stumped since there's basically nothing latitudinally or longditudinally projecting out from here. Eastern Russia, Middle Argentina, the top of Tasmania.
This question seems like the odd one out, since unlike the rest of them, it's the same for everyone no matter where you live.